In the Realms of the Unreal

Last night i had this dream that Bennington decided to build several of these large, industrial, futuristic skyscrapers across campus. One of them was out near Dickinson/the Barn, and two of them were residential halls that were across from the 70’s houses between them and the colonials. They also changed the exterior/interior of the student center. It was really bizarre and all I could think was, what is this—The Fountainhead?!

Needless to say, I think I’m missing college too much. I love Minneapolis but I can’t wait to get back in a few weeks.

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confessionsabouteatingdisorders:

I used to think that being thin is oh so glamour as well, and I fell for pro-ana propaganda because I wanted to be someone special, perfect and strong. I thought that I can stop whenever I want. My life is a living hell now. I am empty; I destroyed my…

Okay, honestly I find a lot about this to be kind of harsh on individuals with eating disorders. The point you’re making is understandable—having an eating disorder isn’t just about wanting to lose weight. But what you missed is that having an eating disorder is usually connected to having an issue with control/compulsion. I don’t know much about the ED community, but I still know that those individuals who suffer from it are usually trying to reach a point of perfection, either for themselves or others. Even the testimony shows this—the girl says she wants to be perfect, and mentions that there were a lot of things in her life pre-ED that she probably considered to be going very well.

We need to not forget that people who have an ED are also mentally ill, and therefore need to be treated with some sense of understanding that their condition is fragile. Of course, a lot of people with eating disorders are going to say that they have an ED solely because they want to lose weight, because to them, that is the main control behind their actions. A person with depression isn’t typically going to always know the root cause of their disorder—that’s why they need help to get better.

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2012-01-14

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2012-01-13

oh-so-very-adorkable:

isthatwhatyoumint:

challenge for comics class in which we had to complete the same number of pages in however many hours we spent on it over all. I spent nine hours on mine and made a nine page comic. (simply, hours spent = number of pages)

it was definitely a challenge, but I think I got better with it as I got used to the time constraints. it was really exhausting, though.

this one is (obviously) very much about body image issues, something that everyone has to deal with at some point or another.

This really says a lot.

beautiful.

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Rachael of Talk 2 the Trees.

can i please have my hair like this again

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2012-01-12

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2012-01-10

“She tries to look like a feminist, but only feels more alone.”

transexualpervert:

The playwright who wrote this line claims to be a feminist and thinks she’s a great playwright. So does the drama department here, for some reason. Yes, she’s being entirely sincere.

Lost my shit.

Also, she just said, “She tries to look feminine and stable, but feels like a loser.”

I saw this post a while ago and wanted to say something, but I decided to wait a little bit and take what you’re saying in before I jumped to any conclusions about this. First of all, as Jay/Brooke, whose tumblr’s I saw mention this know, but other people reading probably don’t know, I was in this class and saw this play be read out loud just as Jay and Brooke did. Truthfully, I didn’t find anything offensive about her use of feminism and the whole concept of femininity wrong—and, after thinking about it some more, I personally don’t consider it wrong, still. This is my reasoning and I’m not trying to use it to disclaim what anyone else felt about it, because I do understand that it could be taken as offensive to some people.

What I think the writer was trying to do was to create a parody on the whole concept of what we (in this case, we being a society) project feminism and femininity to be. In the context of the play itself, and the context of the assignment, this makes sense—the plays needed to be based on a chapter from Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene, which goes into description about human/specie interactions, among other key concepts relating to evolution and genetics. That was literally the worst summary ever, but the play itself was based off a chapter that dealt with how individuals interact with one another. Furthermore, we knew that the plays would be read out loud, stage directions and all (these two parts are from the stage directions). The use of feminism as some sort of ploy by the character to “appear” strong/independent, in my opinion, comes from the concept that we have in our society that feminism = radical thinking and unwavering devotion to one’s ideals. It doesn’t always have to be the first concept; there are radicals in every ideological realm, and it would be immature to not include feminism in that. Furthermore, the character who these directions are meant for is a little girl, who most likely does not even know the definition of feminism. Thinking in the mindset of the character, we are talking about a young girl who has been subjected to all of these images that are associated with being a woman—empty archetypes that most girls and women have seen, or at the very least subconsciously know and understand, in their lifetime. In the stage directions, she is trying to evoke those images—first, the one of an “independent, feminist woman”, then the image of a “feminine woman”. As adults (or close enough to it), we can all understand that these concepts are loaded, highly open to interpretation, and overly generalized. However, to a 9 or 10-year-old girl, especially one who considers herself highly intelligent, there is a loaded intelligence in the way that she perceives herself and her actions—and I believe that’s what the writer was trying to get through when she wrote the piece with this language. It’s almost like it’s meant to be incorrect, because it’s a reflection on how our society makes these terms so loaded with false perceptions.

I really didn’t mean to bring this up to rouse conflict as much as to express my opinion. There’s a lot about feminism/feminist theory I don’t know about, and all of this is really just my opinion on the matter and how I viewed it while in the course. I’m open to whatever response you guys (or anyone else) has.

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2012-01-09

word.

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